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32-484: The Linear Men are a team of men and women who police time and work to resolve time paradoxes. The core team consists of Matthew Ryder (the leader and founder), an alternate future version of Ryder known as Waverider , Travis O'Connell, Liri Lee, and Rip Hunter , although other members of the Linear Men have been seen from time to time. An alternate Matthew, one who was once employed by Lex Luthor , also became part of

64-672: A concentrated stream of fire at opponents. He wears an asbestos suit with a breathing mask that affords him protection against fire and heat. His suit was once shown to be able to project heat as well, capable of staving off an attack from Captain Cold's cold gun, neutralizing solid projectiles, or melting his way through walls. Heat Wave has a pipe attached to his left arm that can project a fire retardant which allows him to put out fires. Mick Rory / Heat Wave appears in media set in The CW 's Arrowverse , portrayed by Dominic Purcell . This version

96-469: A hostage against Cold. While Libra tries to hypnotize the Rogues, Captain Cold tells Rory to watch a nearby fire to retain his focus. When they are fighting Inertia, Rory melts his boots, making him unable to move. He then helps the other Rogues kill Inertia. Once the crisis is over, the unarmed Human Flame seeks out Heat Wave, hoping to purchase one of his signature flamethrower guns after his own equipment

128-704: A rather important fact about the Linear Men: they are unaware of the Crisis on Infinite Earths , while this small group knows about the former multiverse, as the villain Konstantin Vyronis noted. Rip Hunter eventually locks the Linear Men away for unknown reasons. In the Time Masters: Vanishing Point limited series , it is revealed that Rip and the Linear Men were never in agreement about how to handle time and that Rip, tired of

160-515: Is a supervillain appearing in comic books published by DC Comics . He is commonly as an enemy of The Flash and a member of the Rogues along with Captain Cold , among others. Actor Dominic Purcell has portrayed Heat Wave in The CW 's Arrowverse television series The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow . Heat Wave was first introduced in The Flash #140, written by John Broome . He

192-624: Is one of the exiled villains featured in Salvation Run along with his fellow Rogues Captain Cold , Weather Wizard, Mirror Master , and Abra Kadabra . He was seen as the member of Rogues who joined Libra 's Secret Society of Super Villains. In Final Crisis: Rogues' Revenge #1, however, Heat Wave and the rest of the Rogues reject Libra's offer, wanting to stay out of the game. Before they can retire, they hear of Inertia escaping and decide to stick around long enough to get revenge for being used, particularly after they find that Paul Gambi ,

224-429: Is so hot that it has been able to melt Flash's friction proof boots that allow Flash to run at light speed. Heat Wave carries in-depth knowledge of fire and pyrotechnics . In "The New 52" continuity, Heat Wave did an unknown method to merge his DNA with his flamethrower, thus granting him the ability to project and manipulate fire from his own body. Heat Wave carries a hand-held flamethrower that allows him to project

256-583: Is the Waverider -using A.I. called Gideon. In season one , Time Master Rip Hunter goes rogue after Vandal Savage murders Hunter's family in the future. Intending to stop Savage, Hunter recruits a team consisting of Ray Palmer, Sara Lance, Martin Stein, Jefferson Jackson, Kendra Saunders, Carter Hall, Leonard Snart, and Mick Rory. They discover that the Time Masters are backing Savage in his domination of

288-476: The 853rd century without any errors. Rip Hunter explains this anomaly to various key heroes when he reveals the existence of Hypertime, a mass of alternate timelines, which he had kept secret from the Linear Men due to their inability to accept its existence. Rip Hunter then goes on the run from his former colleagues after he took the Superman, Batman , and Wonder Woman characters from the year 2020 (along with

320-678: The Flash , but meet with Cold's sister Golden Glider , who recruits him for an unknown plot. In Doomsday Clock , Heat Wave and his fellow Rogues are among the villains that attend the underground meeting held by Riddler to discuss the Superman Theory. In the Pre-52 continuity, Heat Wave had no meta-human abilities. He created a flamethrower that allowed him to project intense streams of flame that reach temperatures well over 900 degrees Fahrenheit . The flame that his weaponry projects

352-598: The Biblical Spear of Destiny, with which they can alter their fates. The team is joined by Amaya Jiwe, an African superhero from the Justice Society of America , and Nate Heywood , a modern-day historian who acquires the power to become solid metal at will. In season three , the team discover that they created anachronisms throughout time, and Rip has formed the Time Bureau to help fix them. Rip tells

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384-573: The Black Beetle can escape, and the Linear Men go with him. They then teleport through time to search for Waverider's corpse in the future Earth's desolate wasteland. After Black Beetle finds Waverider's corpse, he double-crosses them, revealing his plan to use Waverider's power to become invulnerable. Black Beetle attempts to fuse with the power of Waverider's corpse, but is thwarted by Supernova. Instead, Liri fuses with Waverider's corpse to become Linear Woman, after which Black Beetle escapes. Rip and

416-555: The Linear Men's interference, locked them away in a cell at Vanishing Point. Later, Matthew Ryder and Liri Lee are freed from their imprisonment by the Time Stealers: Black Beetle , Despero , Per Degaton and Ultra-Humanite . Black Beetle intends to use the Linear Men to bring Waverider to life, but Supernova prevents Black Beetle from dystopia and sends the Time Stealers back to the present. However,

448-462: The Rogues have done and flees only to be captured by Captain Boomerang alongside Weather Wizard . He is sent to "hell planet" Salvation with the other Rogues. When the conflict starts, he sides with Lex Luthor . When they beat J'onn , he's worried about killing another hero, claiming that they will kill them with rusty razors. He returns to Earth with the villains who are still alive. Heat Wave

480-401: The Rogues visit Sam Scudder's old hideout and unveil a giant mirror with the words In Case of Flash: Break Glass written on it. Rory is still on the run with The Rogues. In September 2011, " The New 52 " rebooted DC's continuity. In this timeline, Heat Wave possesses innate fire abilities and is a rival of Captain Cold, blaming him for the breakup of the Rogues. Both villains are defeated by

512-469: The Rogues' tailor, has been badly beaten by the 'New Rogues' organised by Libra. During the hunt for Inertia, Heat Wave also kills Burn- his own counterpart in the 'New Rogues'- when the two shoot their weapons at each other, Heat Wave noting that Burn's costume was of poorer quality than his own, allowing him to burn Burn to death while he is barely sweating while subjected to Burn's own weapons. Captain Cold later has him kill Cold's father, abducted by Libra as

544-551: The Rogues. This was a spectacular failure and Rory became a villain once again after the Top arrived and undid the mental program that had kept him reformed. In Infinite Crisis , Heat Wave joins the Secret Society of Super Villains . One Year Later , Heat Wave is next seen being recruited by Inertia to team up against Bart Allen . He is one of the rogues who deliver the killing blow to Bart. He freaks out about what he and

576-536: The children of various other heroes) back in time to 1999 to help the younger 'Trinity' stop Gog. The Linear Men also help Superman fight the threat of Dominus . They are featured heavily in the comic book title Chronos , which features Walker Gabriel, accused of the murder of a Linear Man agent. Another Linear Agent pursues the protagonist throughout time, including the town of Smallville during its very early 'Wild West' days. A small, time-traveling troupe of entertainers also opposes this agent. This series also noted

608-496: The circus on fire. He has an intense fear of cold, called cryophobia. This was due to a school field trip (noted above) to a slaughterhouse, during which one of his friends locked him in a freezer. It was these events that made him desperate to fight his fire obsession and after seeing the Rogues in action in Central City, he decided to use his mania to become a villain. He created a protective costume made of asbestos (this

640-476: The moon in AD 2995. This is exactly what was supposed to happen and Travis O'Connell's sacrifice keeps the timeline on track. During Gog 's attack on Superman in the event The Kingdom , killing him in his present and then traveling back to the previous day to do it again, the Linear Men are shaken at the lack of anomalies on their equipment. Superman is constantly killed, yet their records still show him as alive in

672-512: The rest of the Time Masters arrive, but Linear Woman refuses to agree with Rip's rules of time travel and teleports herself and Matthew through the timestream. The Legends of Tomorrow is based on Linear Men, with its members being Arrowverse characters like Sara Lance / White Canary , Atom (Ray Palmer) , Mick Rory , Nate Heywood , Zari Tomaz , Wally West , John Constantine , Hawkman , Hawkgirl , Rip Hunter , Jefferson Jackson , Martin Stein , Leonard Snart and Amaya Jiwe . Their base

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704-424: The team of the demon Mallus, whose follower Nora Darhk has resurrected her father Damien and Amaya's granddaughter Kuasa, also recruiting Gorilla Grodd so that they can release Mallus from his prison by perverting history. The team loses both members of Firestorm, but is joined by Zari Tomaz, a hacktivist from 2042 whose air-controlling amulet is connected to Amaya's totem, and Wally West, a speedster formerly under

736-542: The team. They operate in a base that exists during the last possible moment before the end of the universe, called Vanishing Point. The team's name is taken from the premise that after the Crisis on Infinite Earths , time is strictly linear and paradoxes can unravel the sole remaining timeline. Thanks to Rip Hunter, they remain blissfully ignorant of Hypertime . Before the Crisis , Travis O'Connell perishes when he detonates

768-497: The tutelage of the Flash . Waverider (comics) Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.226 via cp1108 cp1108, Varnish XID 222759732 Upstream caches: cp1108 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 07:49:06 GMT Mick Rory New 52: Heat Wave ( Mick Rory )

800-537: The world in 2166 to facilitate a successful repulsion of a Thanagarian invasion. Due to Snart's sacrifice, the Time Masters are destroyed. In season two , with the Time Masters defeated, the team guard the timeline themselves, and cope with Rip's absence after he disappears. However, they are plagued by the Legion of Doom , a time-travelling team led by Reverse Flash ( Eobard Thawne ), who has recruited versions of Damien Darhk , Malcolm Merlyn , and Leonard Snart to find

832-645: Was Captain Cold who introduced Heat Wave to the Rogues, and in his first appearance they teamed up to get rid of the Flash as they competed over a newscaster they had both fallen in love with and fought each other as they each tried to complete a larger crime spree, but the Flash jailed them both. Eventually, Mick went straight, due largely to the manipulations of the Top . He took a job as a firefighting consultant, using his vast knowledge on fires and heat. He also became good friends with Barry Allen, whose secret identity as Flash

864-412: Was back before the dangers of asbestos were known), built a gun-sized flamethrower (nicknamed the "Hot Rod"), and became Heat Wave. As he was committing crimes in Central City, it was inevitable that he would run into the Flash , which he did quite regularly. Subsequently, he also ended up in jail quite regularly. He also became an adversary of Captain Cold , due to his aversion to cold temperatures. It

896-552: Was discovered by Rory years before. Years later without explanation, Rory returned as Heat Wave. During the Underworld Unleashed storyline, Heat Wave and four other members of the Rogues were tricked by Abra Kadabra into sacrificing themselves, to unleash the demon Neron . Neron returned the soulless bodies of the five to Earth, in a plan to force Flash into a deal. The five Rogues each possessed incredible powers and wreaked havoc, death, and destruction before Neron

928-413: Was first made to be a rival for Captain Cold . However, in recent comics by Geoff Johns , Rory looks to Captain Cold to help him keep his obsession at bay, though Cold thinks he'll eventually become beyond help. Born on a farm outside Central City , Mick Rory became fascinated with fire as a child. This fascination turned into an obsession and one night, he set his family's home ablaze. His obsession

960-519: Was forced by Flash to halt their actions and return their souls to their bodies. Heat Wave would only briefly return to his criminal ways before abandoning them to study with Zhutanian monks. Afterwards, he worked for Project Cadmus as a backup agent, but eventually quit that too and moved to the Quad Cities , Illinois , area. He eventually got a job at the FBI , along with other reformed members of

992-604: Was lost in a confrontation with the Mafia. After learning that the Human Flame can only offer him $ 5,000.00, Heat Wave refuses, denouncing Human Flame as "pathetic". Noting that Captain Cold advised against this meeting and he only agreed to see what the other man had to offer, Heat Wave gives Human Flame a harsh beating, the fight concluding with Heat Wave blowing up the fireworks factory they were meeting in, noting that he had always wanted to do something like that. Heat Wave and

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1024-446: Was so great, that he simply watched the flames engulf his house, instead of running to get help. After this event, Rory went to live with his uncle. His pyromania continued and he was forced to run away after locking a schoolmate in his house and setting it on fire, after the boy locked Rory in a meat locker during a field trip. He took a job as a fire eater with a traveling circus . This did not last long either, as he ended up setting

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